Konstantine Stanislavski Love art in yourself and not yourself in art.
Harold Clurman The stage is life, music, beautiful girls, legs, breasts, not talk or intellectualism or dried-up academics.
Five Uneasy Pieces at Elephant Space
by Joel Elkins~
Five Uneasy Pieces is a series of (actually six) monologues written and acted by show creator Todd Waring. The pieces run about 10 minutes each and involve widely varying characters, completely unconnected one to another. If there’s an underlying theme, it’s the uneasiness of their lives.
The characters range [...]
Editor’s Note: LA Theatre Review is proud to begin its 2011 Hollywood Fringe coverage with a tease of some of the shows that are previewing before the official opening of the actual festival next Thursday, June 16th. Here are the first three reviews. We will tease you with a couple more each day until opening, [...]
by K. Primeau~
Hollywood Fringe is 8 months away; Ovation Awards aren’t til the new year. What’s a theatre artist to do between now and The Christmas Carol season?!
Attend the first-ever #LAThtr Tweetup of course!
Bring flyers for your latest show, info about your theatre company, ideas for The Theatre and #LAThtr community members, and cash for [...]
by Ashley Steed~
On Sunday, the last day of the inaugural Hollywood Fringe Festival, LATR hosted a critics panel with Don Shirley from LA Stage Blog (which I also write for), Harvey Perr from Stage and Cinema, Collin Mitchell and Enci from Bitter Lemons, Steven Leigh Morris from LA Weekly, and our very own editor-in-chief Geoff [...]
LA Theatre Reveiw is proud to have had the privilege of covering the first
ever Hollywood Fringe Festival. We were able to review 82 productions at least
once. (Several of the productions were seen and reviewed by more than one of
our writers.)
We have compiled all the pdf version of the Daily Rag papers so you can download
them [...]
The 2010 Hollywood Fringe Festival is now behind us. Last night we had the extreme pleasure of handing out four La Fringe awards, all for outstanding contribution to theatre in Los Angeles.
The nominees and recipients were:
Outstanding Contribution to Theatre in Los Angeles in a Solo Show
1. The Event
2. Brownsville Bred
3. The Most Dangerous Woman in [...]
True West Girl at at The Lounge Theatre
by Robert Axelrod~
As one person shows go, True West Girl stands out for its sheer maintenance of manic energy. Writer/Performer Barbara Bragg traces her pioneer family back to her grandfather when Wyoming was still a territory. She assays her life from early [...]
(Some of our reviewers have seen Fringe shows already reviewed by LATR. They wanted to present their own views of the pieces, so I am putting the first few of these here. I will do more as they come in. – ed.)
4 Clowns at Art|Works Theatre
by K. Primeau~
This hilarious and surprisingly [...]
The Waste Land at Theatre Asylum
by K. Primeau~
T.S. Eliot’s poem on wandering the streets of London contains dissonant imagery of drought and despondency that could easily be descriptive of strolls along the LA River and barren, concrete-rock walls of Hollywood. In Filament Theatre Co.’s staged performance of the piece, five chorus members bring new [...]
Fat, Bald & Loud at The Complex
by Rachel Stoll~
Craig Shaynak’s show Fat, Bald & Loud is a constantly changing show involving accents, props, and audience participation. Shaynak has multiple scenes and ideas within the show. Furthermore, this show is never the same twice. One night you may get Russian hookers and Chicago cab drivers; [...]
